U.S.- Venezuela Cooperative Research on Climatology

该奖项将支持科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的Roger Barry教授与环境部（MARNR）的A. Moreau和M. Perdomo以及委内瑞拉梅里达洛斯安第斯大学（ULA）的R. Andressen合作。合作的目的是扩大目前得到支助的关于南美洲北部降水制度的工作。通过在委内瑞拉进行长期气候学和气候变化的研究，研究人员将获得一个独特的地理环境，那里的气候学实际上是未知的。更具体地说，PI打算研究降水状况及其与大气动力和地形强迫的关系，年际变化的原因，以及海拔和地形对低纬度降水的影响。美方将为合作贡献其专业知识和资源，而委内瑞拉调查人员将提供水文气象数据，并通过其台站网络提供协助。本研究结果将为热带和全球气候学及气候变化研究人员提供重要信息。

This award will support Professor Roger Barry of the University of Colorado-Boulder in collaboration with A. Moreau and M. Perdomo of the Ministerio del Ambiente (MARNR) and R. Andressen of the Universidad de los Andes (ULA) in Merida, Venezuela. The purpose of the collaboration is to extend currently supported work on precipitation regimes in northern South America. By conducting research on long-term climatology and climatic change in Venezuela, the researchers will gain access to a unique geographical setting whose climatology is virtually unknown. More specifically, the PI's intend to study precipitation regimes and their relationship to atmospheric dynamics and topographic forcing, the causes of their interannual variability, and the effects of altitude and topography on precipitation in low latitudes. The U.S. side will contribute their expertise and resources to the collaboration while the Venezuelan investigators will provide access to hydro-meteorological data and assistance from their station networks. The results of this study should provide important information to researchers interested in tropical and global climatology and climatic change.